| Competition in the Promised Land Subjects: HISTORY / Social History.; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History.; African Americans; African Americans; Rural-urban migration; Migration Int; From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West. Competition in the Promised Land provides a comprehensive account of the long-lasting effects of the influx of black workers on labor markets and urban space in receiving areas. Leah Platt Boustan is professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. |